Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-14
LINCOLN ANNIVERSARY.

Vi tu6 EcpuDllGHu CiuD Oh NEW
York. on the anniversary of the birth of
abraham Lincoln, was held at belmont
co.'s tonight, with about ITS, more or
less, well known republicans, including
Gov, Ogiesby, of Illinois, Gov. Foraker,
of Ohio, Gov. L%ounsbnry, of Connect
cut and ex-Go,. Foster, of Ohio. The
list of the toasss was as follows:
Republican club OF the city OF New
York-The president, james Foster.
Abraham Lincoln-Joseph r. Hawley.
Empire Observation-Disclosures. Hiscock.
The republican party-Gov. Foraker.
Reform of the party within the party
Senator Harrison.
Young men in politics-Chauncey NJ.
Depew.
War governors-Gov. Oglesby.
Republican clubs as agencies of party
organization-E. T. Bartlett.
A tariff for Observation-Disclosures A..
Grow.
Civil service reform-Henry Cabot
Lodge.
Our legislators-Speaker Husted.
Blaine had been expected to respond
to the toast Of Abraham Lincoln, but at
the last moment he sent a letter of
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q late hour.
Blaine in his letter of regret, said,
after referring to the anniversary, and
paying q tribute to Washington and
Lincoln az two immortal names in
American history:
Your club meets to do honor to Lin
coin as a republican. 1t was the repub-
lican party that gave Lincoln to the
| nation and sustained him step by step
! throughout his extraordinary career.
The celebration of Lincoln's name is the
celebration Of the republican party. To
that party he was sincerely attached; to
its principles he was entirely devoted;
In its success he found the victorious
issue Of every great policy OF which he
was himself the personal exponent. The
Republican party makes nc attempt. to
narrow the possession of fame that is
recognized on all continents-that will
last through all the centuries that be-
longs to humanity. But the political
Organization which supported Lincoln
has q right to claim the prestige of his
name as it continues to labor in the
great field where he wrought until all
the harvests of his planting shall be
gathered and garnered.
Senator John Sherman wrote that
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ed his presence at.the banquet. In the
course Of his letter Mr.. Sherman said:
We have tried q change, and what has
been the result? A discordant party,
unable to agree upon q line of foreign
and domestic policy; divided upon the
tariff hopelessly at sea on all financial
Questions; obsequious in its foreign reia-
tions; distinguished only for the marked
prominence ii has given to confederate
soldiers in foreign courts, and now, with
its term OF office half spent, the house of
representatives democratic by. o large
majority, is unable to formulate o single
measure of political importance upon
which it can agree with the democratic
president. Surely the time has arrived
when the republican party should as
sumo again its great mission. The time
is opportune. Under The operation OF
laws placed upon the statute books by
republican administrations the taxes are
so levied as to produce an overlooking
revenue without Q serious burden upon
t.ae people Weare at liberty to choose
between reducing our revenues or ex-
pending our surplus in great and benef-
cent objects of natural desire. We
can combine two lines of public
policy. We could readily reduce
the tax on Sugar, while giving encour-
agement to domestic products IN the
form of bounty. We could repeal or
reduce all the taxes that do not tend TO
encourage and protect domestic pro-
tduotions. We could commence and
establish q system OF coast defenses that
will guard the great arteries OF u COM
MERGE. We would place u navy again
in a condition to be respected and renew
our participation In foreign commerce.
We could make sritable commercial ar
arrangements with our neighbors, the do
minion OF Canada, and thus avoid ali
future controversies about the rights of
our people to fish in American waters,
and IN this way, by gradual measures,
knit and mould the interests and desires
of our neighbors with our own.
Letters of regret were also read from
Gen. Sherman, Gen. Sheridan, Robert Z.
Lincoln, Hannibal Hamlip, and Senator
Evarts and Warner Miller.
Gov. Oglesby responded to the senti-
ment: ..The war governors, the pillars
of strength which upheld the fabric of
our national government in its hour of
peril" He said that he was himself not
enough OF a war governor that his name
would be heard in the songs Of history,
but too much OF d one to fail to remember
that they were great and good men, and
that they stood nobly by the govern
ment. He read q list OF war governors.
Those Of the popular favorites were
greeted with applause, while the mem
tion of Horatio Seymour among them
brought ont q curious strife for supre-
macy between those who clapped their
hands and those who Kissed. Gov.
Oglesby modestly omitted his own name,
but It was supplemented by one of his
auditors, and the white.haired old man
waited patiently while the enthusiasm
which greeted it vented itself. He
reviewed the triumphant course of his
party for q quarter Of o century, and
added that it needed a rest OF four years,
but the people would conclude that four
years was not enough. In 1888 il the re-
publican party put upa candidate who
was of irreproachable character all hell
and the democratic party combined could
not defeat him. The leader Of the re-
publican party in 1883 must be great
ehough and broad enough to take in the
whole 100000 square miles Of our ter
ritory. He must be able to see more
than n section OF land. He advised
the people OF New York and New Eng
land not to get excited over their de-
fenseless coasts. The people of Europe
we're too much engaged in watching each
other to trouble us.